Bug in formatting of numbers in thermal simulation
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I was messing around and learning with thermal simulation and noticed at one point that formatting of temperature values doesn't handle the extreme values well, e.g., reporting the max temperature as 117 C and the minimum temperature as 457.8 C, which is obviously wrong. The problem has to do with how the formatting is not handling numbers using scientific notation. It's an extreme condition given the temperature ranges involved, but still something like formatting of numbers for accurate presentation is something that should be pretty standard.
Although the extreme condition used to generate this are not realistic in any real world application, something as simple as typo or entering by mistake the wrong value for a heat source can produce the results in the simulation. If one were dealing with a complicated design and under pressure to hit a deadline, it's easy to see that the unrealistic results wouldn't be noticed (117C and 457.8 C are realistic values in some applications) and error might go undetected.